ROB 498 /599: Computational Human-Robot Interaction Fall 2025 |
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Note: the schedule is subject to change. Please check back here and on Piazza for updates. Golden font indicates student-led discussion.
| # | Date | Topic | Reading | Release | Deadline | |
| 1 | Mon Aug 25 | Introduction | Minerva | textbook | Knowledge survey | ||
| 2 | Wed Aug 27 | Bayesian inference | PR Ch 2 | Bayes | Assignment 0 | Team formation | |
| Mon Sep 1 | Labor Day | No class | ||||
| 3 | Wed Sep 3 | Filtering | PR Ch 3, 4 | PF | KF | Assignment 1 | Assignment 0 | |
| 4 | Mon Sep 8 | Simulation | paper 1 | |||
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main: tag team
con: Overfit & UnderFed |
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| paper 2 | ||||||
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main: LnY
con: AMA |
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| 5 | Wed Sep 10 | Motion planning | A* | RRT | CHOMP | |||
| 6 | Mon Sep 15 | HRI systems | paper 1 | |||
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main: WDK
con: Majestic MBots | ||||||
| paper 2 | ||||||
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main: R2D2
con: LetsGo |
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| 7 | Wed Sep 17 | Model Predictive Control | MPPI | application | Assignment 2 | Assignment 1 | |
| 8 | Mon Sep 22 | Verbal communication | paper 1 | |||
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main: Anybot
con: Lantern |
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| paper 2 | ||||||
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main: Jichao-Brendan-Benjamin
con: tag team |
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| 9 | Wed Sep 24 | Planning under uncertainty | MDPs | application | |||
| 10 | Mon Sep 29 | Nonverbal communication | paper 1 | |||
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main: Overfit & UnderFed
con: LnY |
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| paper 2 | ||||||
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main: AMA
con: WDK |
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| 11 | Wed Oct 1 | Learning | Imitation learning | Assignment 3 | Assignment 2 | |
| 12 | Mon Oct 6 | Robots in the wild | paper 1 | |||
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main: Majestic MBots
con: R2D2 |
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| paper 2 | ||||||
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main: LetsGo
con: Anybot |
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| 13 | Wed Oct 8 | Andrey Rudenko (TUM) | THOR dataset | |||
| Mon Oct 13 | Fall study break | No class | ||||
| 14 | Wed Oct 15 | Vinitha Ranganeni (Hello Robot) | Navigation Assistant | Assignment 4 | Assignment 3 | |
| 15 | Mon Oct 20 | Groups and teams | paper 1 | |||
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main: Lantern
con: Jichao-Brendan-Benjamin |
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| paper 2 | ||||||
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main: tag team
con: Overfit and UnderFed |
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| 16 | Wed Oct 22 | Vaibhav Unhelkar (Rice) | ASTRID | |||
| 17 | Mon Oct 27 | Human-robot collaboration | paper 1 | |||
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main: LnY
con: AMA |
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| paper 2 | ||||||
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main: WDK
con: Majestic MBots |
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| 18 | Wed Oct 29 | Experiment design | primer | Assignment 4 | ||
| 19 | Mon Nov 3 | Shared control | paper 1 | |||
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main: R2D2
con: LetsGo |
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| paper 2 | ||||||
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main: Anybot
con: Lantern |
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| 20 | Wed Nov 5 | Kushal Kedia (Cornell) | MOSAIC | Project proposal | ||
| 21 | Mon Nov 10 | Assistive robotics | paper 1 | |||
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main: Jichao-Brendan-Benjamin
con: tag team |
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| paper 2 | ||||||
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main: Overfit and UnderFed
con: LnY |
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| 22 | Wed Nov 12 | Dimosthenes Kontogiorgos (MIT) | Questioning the robot | |||
| 23 | Mon Nov 17 | Project update presentations | ||||
| 24 | Wed Nov 19 | Explainability in HRI | paper 1 | |||
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main: AMA
con: WDK |
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| paper 2 | ||||||
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main: Majestic MBots
con: R2D2 |
25 | Mon Nov 24 | Art with robots | paper 1 | ||
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main: LetsGo
con: Anybot |
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| paper 2 | ||||||
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main: Lantern
con: Jichao-Brendan-Benjamin |
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| Wed Nov 26 | Thanksgiving break | No class | ||||
| 26 | Mon Dec 1 | Guest lecture TBD | ||||
| 27 | Wed Dec 3 | Project office hours | ||||
| 28 | Mon Dec 8 | Final project presentations | Location: FRB 2300 | |||
| Wed Dec 10 | No class | Final report |
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